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* Replication Material for "Schooling, Political Participation, and the Economy"
* Review of Economics and Statistics, Nov 2012
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by

Filipe R. Campante, Harvard 
Davin Chor, Singapore Management University


This readme file describes the replication files for the article "Schooling, Political Participation, and the Economy", Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 94, No.4 (November 2012), pp.841�859.

All files are in Stata 11 format. Regression output is tabulated using the outreg command.

Data sources are documented in full in the main text and in the Data Appendix in the Supplementary Material. 


1. Table13567_WVS.do: Reproduces all World Values Survey (WVS) regressions using the first principal component dependent variable of political participation.
These specifications appear in the paper in Table 1, Table 3 (Columns 1-4), Table 5 (Columns 1-4), Table 6 (Columns 1-4), and Table 7.
Dataset that is called up: wvsmerge_RESTAT_replication.dta

2. Table4356_CSES.do: Reproduces all Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) regressions.
These specifications appear in the paper in Table 4, Table 3 (Columns 5-6), Table 5 (columns 5-6), and Table 6 (Columns 5-6).
Dataset that is called up: csesmerge_RESTAT_replication.dta

3. Table2.do: Reproduces Table 2 in the paper, which contains WVS regressions using each individual political participation measure separately as the dependent variable.
Dataset that is called up: wvsmerge_RESTAT_replication.dta

4. Table8.do: Reproduces Table 8 in the paper (cross-country regressions).
Dataset that is called up: crosscountrymerge_RESTAT_replication.dta

5. Figure1.do: Reproduces Figure 1 in the paper.
Dataset that is called up: wvsmerge_RESTAT_replication.dta

6. summstats_RESTAT_replication.do: Reproduces summary statistics in the Supplementary Appendix Tables.
Dataset that is called up: wvsmerge_RESTAT_replication.dta
Dataset that is called up: csesmerge_RESTAT_replication.dta


Contact information:
Filipe_Campante@harvard.edu
davinchor@smu.edu.sg